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DETROIT (Oct. 13, 2008) – Wayne State University Law School is pleased to present a lecture by Seton Hall Law School Professor Marc R. Poirier from 12:15 – 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2008, in the Law School’s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. The lecture, titled “The Cultural Property Claim within the Same-Sex Marriage Controversy,” is sponsored by the Wayne Law Programs and Awards Committee.

“We are honored to welcome Professor Poirier to Wayne Law,” said Steven L. Winter, Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law. “This lecture presents a remarkable opportunity for Wayne Law students, faculty, alumni and friends to hear from one of the legal community’s finest scholars.”

Professor Poirier earned a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an LL.M. from Yale Law School. In private practice as a partner with Spiegel & McDiarmid in Washington, D.C., he served as President of the Committee on Hydroelectric Regulation of the Federal Energy Bar Association. Professor Poirier joined the Seton Hall Law School faculty in 1991, and has published extensively in the areas of environmental law, environmental justice, property law and theory, coastal land use, gender discrimination, and law and sexual orientation.

This lecture is free and open to the public, and a light lunch will be available starting at noon. Parking is available in Structure #1 across from the Law School on Palmer Street (corner of Cass) for $3.50. For more information on this event, please contact the Dean’s Office at (313) 577-3933 or robind@wayne.edu.

Wayne State University Law School
Wayne State University Law School has educated and served the Detroit metropolitan area since its inception as Detroit City Law School in 1927. Located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit’s re-energized historic cultural center, the Law School remains committed to student success and features modern lecture and court facilities, multi-media and distance learning classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, and the Arthur Neef Law Library, which houses one of the nation’s 40 largest legal collections. Taught by an internationally recognized and expert faculty, Wayne State Law School students experience a high-quality legal education via a growing array of hands-on curricular offerings, five live-client clinics, and access to well over 100 internships with local and non-profit entities each year. Its 11,000 living alumni, who work in every state of the nation and more than a dozen foreign countries, are experts in their disciplines and include leading members of the local, national and international legal communities. For more information, visit www.law.wayne.edu.